Aqua Lung Ambassadors

Sarah Williamson

Sarah is a professional diver, underwater photographer and operator of a successful business called Dive Girls.

Sarah started diving five years ago after a 'try dive' on The Great Barrier Reef, and was HOOKED!

Within a week she had done her Open Water certification. Her love of the ocean and passion for it’s conservation has grown from there.

Sarah took time off from diving when her son was born and susbequently noticed that a lot of women divers often stopped diving for family reasons and that there were generally more men divers.It was not a women’s world!!This saw the creation of Dive Girls.Sarah wanted to develop and encourage more women back into the water. She also saw it as an opportunity to share her passion for diving, ocean conservation, and the underwater world in general. Her biggest aim was to try and bridge the gap - so people who can't or don't have access to the ocean, could get the chance to share in the oceans wonder. Her idea has grown into a resource page for land and ocean lovers, and she also runs regular dive trips and meet-ups to help keep a connection within the dive community.

Sarah still works part time in the dive industry so she is up to date and very knowledgeable on all the latest equipment required for diving.

John Chatterton

Professional Diver

One of the world's most accomplished and well known wreck divers, John Chatterton was one of the co-hosts for the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives. Prior to his career in television, John spent twenty years working as a commercial diver in and around New York City, and was actually working on a project in the waters underneath the World Financial Center, across the street from the Tower #1, on September 11, 2001.

Researching,locating, and diving the world's shipwrecks has been John's passion. The discovery and six year quest to identify the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, has been the subject of several television documentaries including a two hour special for the popular NOVA series on PBS. This same story became the subject of a Random House bestseller by Rob Kurson, Shadow Divers.

In August of 2005, John and his partners put together an expedition to the most famous shipwreck in the world, Titanic. Diving to a depth of 12,500 feet in the MIR submersibles from the Russian Research Ship Keldysh, they made discoveries about the wreck that were featured in two History Channel specials and a book. Author Brad Matsen brought the story to bookshelves with his bestseller, Titanic's Last Secrets.

Currently John and his partners are working in an ongoing relationship with the government of the Dominican Republic in a multi faceted commercial project that involves locating, surveying and identifying colonial era shipwreck sites in the waters around the island of Hispañola.

Cody's First Step Foundation

Cody Unser

Humanitarian

Since being paralyzed in the 6th grade by a spinal cord inflammation, Transverse Myelitis (TM), Cody has raced nonstop to raise awareness and find a cure. As the daughter of Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Jr., she dreams of walking on the racetrack one day. When she was just 14, she and her mother, Shelley, formed the Cody Unser First Step Foundation, which is dedicated to providing quality–of–life programs for those suffering from paralysis. These programs include a TM research consortium spearheaded by Johns Hopkins Hospital; Cody's Great Scuba Adventure, created to share her new found freedom for all disabilities; and "Operation Deep Down", a military diving program that introduces wounded veterans to scuba as a way to rehabilitate through recreation. Cody is a political activist who has testified before Congress and lobbied nationwide for stem cell research, following in the foot steps of her friend, late actor Christopher Reeve.

SUDS (Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba)

Matias Ferreira

Wounded Warrior, SUDS Diver

Like too many other service men and women, Matias Ferreira was injured while serving his country. Instead of letting the bilateral below-the-knee amputation break his spirit, he picked up his remaining pieces and turned himself into a walking, talking, sports-playing, scuba diving inspiration...all before his 25th birthday.

Today Matias volunteers his time to help fellow wounded warriors through SUDS (Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba), and inspires children facing similar problems though the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Kids Camp. He shows us all that anything is possible, and it is this, combined with his dedication to others, that makes Aqua Lung proud to have Matias Ferreira as an Ambassador.

Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society in North America

Ana Sofia Guerra

2014 North American Rolex Scholar of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society

Ana Sofia Guerra, 24, was born in Monterrey, Mexico, very far away from the ocean. Eleven years later, after a brief move to Dallas, TX, Ana was living in São Paulo, Brazil. Through a local sea turtle NGO, she discovered a passion for the marine world and got certified as a PADI Junior Open Water Diver at age 12. After completing high school in Mexico City, Ana moved to California to attend Stanford University. Ana obtained a degree in Biology through Stanford University and she actively sought out opportunities to do her work by the water. She spent the majority of her college career at Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford’s marine biology station in Monterey Bay where she obtained her Rescue and AAUS Scientific Diver certification, and worked as a field assistant for multiple projects at Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific. She also had the opportunity to work closely with small-scale fishers in Baja California Sur, Mexico as well as teach and mentor students for the Stanford@SEA class aboard the SSV Robert C. Seamans. As the 2014 North American Rolex Scholar of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society, Ana wants to find her heading in the marine world and find the way to make the biggest impact by continuing to explore different fields in marine science as well writing and photography. She hopes to use what she learns to influence marine conservation practices, make the ocean more accessible to those who don’t have the opportunity to delve into it, and bridge the gap between the marine scientific community and the public.